Where Are America’s Librarians? And Other Interesting Stats

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/where-are-americas-librarians/

Rather than solely looking at change over time, it’s worth zooming in to a finer level of detail. For each metropolitan area, the BLS calculates a “job quotient,” which measures the number of librarians relative to population. On that basis, with 2.1 librarians for every 1,000 people, Owensboro, Ky., is the Silicon Valley of librarians.